Working Group on coverage of Treatment Demand Data Lisbon, 5 February 2007

Objectives of the working group meeting Have a first overview of TD data coverage Work on data coverage with a group of volunteer countries (8) Doing a first assessment of data coverage Identify the main problems in data coverage Make a proposal to improve data coverage Present the results of the data assessment in the next expert meeting in September

TDI information reported in 2006 (data 2005) 25 countries reporting TDI data in not reporting any data (BE, ES, NO, HR) Data mainly referred to 2005 reporting year In some cases to previous years (2004 or 2003)

Trends in number of clients and units reported from 1996 to 2005 Increase from 1996 to 2005: New clients: +36% ; All clients: +40% ; Units: +56%

Data coverage by type of treatment centre: n. countries collecting data with TDI in 2004, 2005 and 2006

Data coverage in 2006 by treatment centre

Data coverage in outpatient treatment centres in 2004, 2005 and 2006

Information provided to EMCDDA on coverage in TDI ST.03 and TDI-ST.34 Type of treatment centre (outpatient, inpatient, low threshold, GPs, prison + others in TDI) Number of units covered with data collection Number of units existing in the country % of units covered % of units in the country

Standard Table 3 TYPE OF TREATMENT UNIT N of units covered (1) N of units in the countr y (2) % of units covered (3) % of cases covered (4) Outpatient treatment centres Inpatient treatment centres Low threshold/drop- in/street agency General practitioners Treatment units in prison

ST.34- TDI by centre type Methodological background All information should be given according to the kind of treatment centre defined for this data file! 1. Treatment centre type N of units covered (1) N of units in the country (2) % of units covered (3) % of cases covered (4)

Definitions (1) N of units coverednumber of units (of this treatment centre type) reporting to the monitoring system (2) N of units in the country:how many treatment centres of the respective type do exist in the country? (3) % of centres covered:estimated proportion of reporting treatment centres (with regard to the overall number of the respective treatment centre type in the country) covered by the monitoring system (4) % of cases covered:proportion of cases/episodes reported to the monitoring system with regard to all cases treated nationally (by this type of treatment centres)

Completeness of data on coverage on 25 countries reporting data (2005 data) Information on coverageN. countries reporting data N. countries NOT reporting data On N. units covered241 On N. units in the country169 On % of units covered187 On % of clients covered1510

Units: N. countries reporting data on units by type of treatment centre (2005 data) Type of Treatment CentreN. Countries reporting data N. Countries reporting data on n. units covered N. Countries reporting data on n. units in the country Outpatient Inpatient Low Threshold (Cz, Gr, Ir)332 GPs (Au, Uk)22Na Units in prison (Au, Sp, Sk, Sw)442 Others (Lu, Nl)222

Reported data on the number of UNITS covered Type of Treatment Centre N. Units covered (available data) N. Units in the country (available data) % of Units covered* (on countries with both data available: covered and existing units) Outpatient % Inpatient % Low Threshold (3 countries) 8182(95.1%) GPs (2 countries)144Na Units in prison (4 countries) 11174(70.3%) Others (2 countries) % Total (66%)

Units: data coverage on the number of units (covered and existing) by country

% units coverage for countries where data were available for units covered and units in the country 50-90% <50% >90%

Clients – Available data on coverage of treatment clients: n. of countries by level of coverage and centre type (15 countries) Type of Treatment Centre100%50-90%<50% Outpatient543 Inpatient443 Low Threshold010 GPsna Units in prisonna Others012

Clients: % of clients coverage by country on available data <50% 100% 50-99%

Clients: Data coverage by type of centre for countries reporting data %